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Karl  Marx 

and  the 

Civil  War 

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People  s  Pocket  Series  No.  162 

Karl  Marx 

and  the 

Civil  War 

A  Rejuvenation  of  H^s-Beens 

By  H.  M..  Tichenor 

The  Completeness  of  the  Sweep 

By  H.  M.  Tichenor 


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KARL  MARX  AND  THE 
AMERICAN  CIVIL  WAR 

1.  Address    of    the    General 

Council  to  Abraham 

Lincoln. 

On  September  28,  1864,  in  St. 
Martin's  Hall  in  London,  there 
took  place  that  famous  meeting 
of  workingmen  which  gave  birth 
to  the  International  Working- 
men's  Association,  an  organiza- 
tion which  powerfully  stimulat- 
ed and  promoted  the  labor  move- 
ment of  all  countries  in  the  six- 
ties. This  meeting  appointed  a 
provisional  central  committee 
for  the  management  of  the  af- 
fairs of  the  new  organization, 
which  came  later  to  be  called 
the  General  Council,  and  which 
was  composed  of  representatives 
of  different  nationalities. 

Even  before  the  foundation  of 
the  International  Workingmen's 


KARL    MARX    AND    CIVIL   WAR 

Association,  it  was  above  all  oth- 
ers the  men  who  became  the 
members  of  the  General  Council 
who  had  worked  for  the  cause 
of  the  American  North  in  their 
circles,  and  who  had  encouraged 
and  inspired  the  English  work- 
ing class  in  their  heroic  stand 
against  the  manufacturers  and 
the  Government. 

On  November  27,  1864,  Karl 
Marx,  the  leading  spirit  of  the 
General  Council,  wrote  thus 
about  the  elements  composing 
this  committee  to  his  friend  Jos- 
eph Weydemeyer,  then  in  the 
United  States: 

"Its  English  members  are 
mostly  chiefs  of  the  local  trades 
unions,  hence  the  real  labor 
kings  of  London,  the  same  peo- 
ple who  gave  Garibaldi  such  a 
rousing  welcome,  and  who  by 
their  monster  meeting  in  St. 
James'  Hall  (Bright  in  the 
chair)  prevented  Palmerston 
from  declaring  war  against  the 
United  States  when  he  was  on 


KARL    MARX   AND    CIVIL   WAR      5 

the  point  of  doing  it."* 

Previous  to  the  organization 
of  the  International  Working- 
men's  Association  Marx  also  had 
thrown  his  influence  to  the  lead- 
ers of  the  English  workingmen 
in  favor  of  the  Union  cause. 

The   General    Council   of   the 
International  continued  the  agi- 
tation   in   this   direction    which  , 
its  members  had  previously  be- 
gun. 

In  the  beginning  of  November, 
1864,  Lincoln  was  elected  for 
the  second  time  to  the  Presi- 
dency of  the  United  States.  Un- 
der the  direct  influence  and  upon 
the  suggestion  of  the  General 
Council  of  the  International 
Workingmen's  Association,  the 
workingmen  of  London  arranged 
a  new  series  of  meetings  to  pro- 
test against  the  anti-Union  atti- 


*F.  Mehring,  Xeue  Beitrage  zur 
Biographie  von  K.  Marx  und  F.  En- 
gels,  Neue  Zeit,  1906-07,  Vol.  II,  p. 
224. 


6      KARL    MARX    AND    CIVIL    WAR 

tude  of  the  manufacturers  an 
the  Government  of  their  coun- 
try.   It  was  Marx  who  furnished 
the  initiative  for  this  renewal  of 
agitation.* 

In  one  of  the  following  meet- 
ings of  the  General  Council,  one 
of  its  members,  Dick,  made  a 
motion,  wThich  was  seconded  by 
t  G.  Howell,  to  draft  an  address 
'  to  the  American  people  congrat- 
ulating them  upon  their  strug- 
gles and  sacrifices  in  behalf  of 
the  principles  of  freedom  and 
upon  their  re-election  of  Lincoln 
:o  the  Presidency  of  the  United 
States.  A  committee  was  ap- 
pointed to  formulate  this  ad- 
dress, and  this  committee  sub- 
mitted its  draft,  the  author  of 
which  was  Marx,  to  the  General 
Council  at  its  meeting  on  No- 
vember  29th.      The    draft   was 


♦According  to  letters  to  the  author 
by  Friedrich  Lessner,  of  London,  at 
the  time  a  member  of  the  General 
'ouncil  of  the  International  Working- 
men's  Association. 


KARL    MARX   AXD    CIVIL   WAR      7 

accepted,  and  a  resolution  was 
adopted  to  forward  it  by  a  com- 
mittee to  Charles  Francis 
Adams,  the  American  Minister 
at  London,  for  transmission  to 
his  Government.  The  following 
is  the  text  of  the  address: 

"To  Abraham  Lincoln,  Presi- 
dent of  the  United  States  of 
America. 

"Sir: — We  congratulate  the 
American  people  on  your  re- 
election by  a  large  majority.  If 
resistance  to  the  Slave  Power 
was  the  watchword  of  your  first 
election,  the  triumphal  war-cry 
)f  your  re-election  is  Death  to 
Slavery. 

"From  the  commencement  of 
the  titanic  American  strife  the 
workingmen  of  Europe  felt  dis- 
tinctively that  the  Star  Spangled 
Banner  carried  the  destiny  of 
their  class.  The  contest  for  the 
territories  which  opened  the  dire 
epopee,  was  it  not  to  decide 
whether  the  virgin  soil  of  im- 


LRX   AND    CIVIL   WAR 

mense  tracts  should  be  wedded 
to  the  labor  of  the  immigrant  or 
be  prostituted  by  the  tramp  of 
the  slave-driver? 

"When  an  oligarchy  of  300,- 
000  slaveholders  dared  to  in- 
scribe for  the  first  time  in  the 
annals  of  the  world  'Slavery'  on 
the  banner  of  armed  revolt, 
when  on  the  very  spots  where 
hardly  a  century  ago  the  idea  of 
one  great  Democratic  Republic 
had  first  sprung  up,  whence  the 
first  declaration  of  the  Rights 
of  Man  was  issued,  and  the  first 
impulse  given  to  the  European 
Revolution  of  the  eighteenth 
century,  when  on  those  very 
spots  counter-revolution,  with 
systematic  thoroughness,  gloried 
in  rescinding  'the  ideas  enter- 
tained at  the  time  of  the  forma- 
tion of  the  old  constitution'  and 
maintained  'slavery  to  be  a  ben- 
eficial institution,'  indeed,  the 
only  solution  of  the  great  prob- 
lem of  the  'relation  of  capital  to 
labor,'  and  cynically  proclaimed 


KARL   MARX   AND    CIVIL    WAR      9 

property  in  man  'the  cornerstone 
of  the  new  edifice/ — then  the 
working  classes  of  Europe  un- 
derstood at  once,  even  before  the 
fanatic  partisanship  ot  me  upper 
classes,  for  the  Confederate  gen- 
try had  given  its  dismal  warn- 
ing, that  the  slaveholders'  rebel- 
lion was  to  sound  the  tocsin  for 
a  general  holy  war  of  property 
against  labor,  and  that  for  the 
men  of  labor,  with  their  hopes 
for  the  future,  even  their  past 
conquests  were  at  stake  in  that 
tremendous  conflict  on  the  other 
side  of  the  Atlantic.  Every- 
where they  bore  therefore  pa- 
tiently the  hardships  imposed 
upon  them  by  the  cotton  crisis, 
opposed  enthusiastically  the  pro- 
slavery  intervention — importun- 
ities of  their  betters — and  from 
most  parts  of  Europe  contrib- 
uted their  quota  of  blood  to  the 
good  of  the  cause. 

"While  the  workingmen,  the 
true  political  power  of  the 
North,  allowed  slavery  to  defile 


30    KARL    MARX   AND    CIVIL    WAR 

their  own  republic,  w7hile  before 
the  Negro,  mastered  and  sold 
without  his  concurrence,  they 
boasted  it  the  highest  preroga- 
tive of  the  white-skinned  laborer 
to  sell  himself  and  choose  his 
own  master,  they  were  unable 
to  attain  the  true  freedom  of  la- 
bor, or  to  support  their  Euro- 
pean brethren  in  their  struggle 
for  emancipation;  but  this  bar- 
rier to  progress  has  been  swept 
off  by  the  red  sea  of  civil  war. 

'The  workingmen  of  Europe 
felt  sure  that,  as  the  American 
War  of  Independence  initiated 
a  new  era  of  ascendency  for  the 
middle  class,  so  the  American 
Anti-slavery  War  will  do  for  the 
working  classes.  They  consider 
it  an  earnest  sign  of  the  epoch  to 
come  that  it  fell  to  the  lot  of 
Abraham  Lincoln,  the  single- 
minded  son  of  the  working  class, 
to  lead  his  country  through  the 
matchless  struggle  for  the  rescue 
of  the  enchained  race  and  the  re- 
construction of  a  social  world. 


KARL   MARX   AND    CIVIL    WAR   11 

"Signed  on  behalf  of  the  In- 
ternational Workingmen's  Asso- 
ciation, the  Central  Council : 

"Longmaid,  Worley,  Whitlock, 
Blackmore,  Hartwell,  Pidgeon, 
Lucraft,  Weston,  Dell,  Nicars, 
Shaw,  Lake,  Buckley, .  Osborn, 
Howell,  Carter,  Wheeler,  Starns- 
by,  Morgan,  Grossmith,  Dick, 
Denoual,  Jourdain,  Morissot, 
Leroux,  Bordage,  Bosquet,  Tal- 
andier,  Dupont,  L.  Wolf,  Aldro- 
vandi,  Lama,  Solustri,  Nuspert, 
Eccarius,  Wolf,  Lessner,  Pfan- 
der,  Lochner,  Taub,  Balliter, 
Rypcrynski,  Hansen,  Schantzen- 
beck,  Smales,  Cornelius,  Peter- 
son, Otto,  Bagnagatti,  Setocri; 
George'  Odgers,  President  of  the 
Council;  P.  V.  Lubez,  Corre- 
sponding Secretary  for  France; 
Karl  Marx,  Corresponding  Sec- 
retary for  Germany;  C.  P.  Fon- 
tana,  Corresponding  Secretary 
for  Italy;  J.  E.  Holtorp,  Corre- 
sponding Secretary  for  Poland  i 
H.  F.  Jung,  Corresponding  Sec- 
retary   for    Switzerland;    Wil- 


12    KARL    MARX   AND    CIVIL   WAR 

Ham  Cremer,  Hon.  General  Sec- 
retary, 18  Greek  Street,  Soho, 
London  W."* 

At  the  meeting  of  the  General 
Council  on  Tuesday,  February  2, 
1865,  the  General  Secretary  read 
a  reply,-  written  by  the  United 
States  Minister  in  London, 
which  wTas  as  follows : 

"Legation  of  the  United  States 
of  America. 

"London,  Jan.  28,  1865. 

"Sir: — I  am  directed  to  in- 
form you  that  the  address  of  the 
Central  Council  of  your  Associa- 
tion, which  was  duly  transmitted 
through  this  legation  to  the  Pres- 
ident of  the  United  States  of 
America,  has  been  received  by 
him.  So  far  as  the  sentiments 
expressed  by  it  are  personal, 
they  are  accepted  by  him  with 
a  sincere  and  anxious  desire  that 
he  may  be  able  to  prove  himself 


"Beehive.     London,  Jan.  7,  1865. 


KARL    MARX   AND    CIVIL   WAR    13 

not  unworthy  of  the  confidence 
which  has  been. recently  extend- 
ed to  him  by  his  fellow-citizens, 
and  by  so  many  friends  of  hu- 
manity and  progress  throughout 
the  world.  The  Government  of 
the  United  States  of  America 
has  a  clear  consciousness  that  its 
policy  neither  is,  nor  could  be, 
reactionary;  but  at  the  same 
time  it  adheres  to  the  course 
which  it  adopted  at  the  begin- 
ning of  abstaining  everywhere 
from  propagandism  and  unlaw- 
ful intervention.  It  strives  to  do 
equal  justice  to  all  states  and  to 
all  men,  and  it  relies  upon  the 
beneficent  results  of  that  effort 
for  support  at  home,  and  for 
respect  and  good  will  through- 
out the  world.  Nations  do  not 
exist  for  themselves  alone,  but 
to  promote  the  welfare  and  hap- 
piness of  mankind  by  benevolent 
intercourse  and  example.  It  is 
in  this  relation  that  the  United 
States  regard  their  cause  in  the 
present    conflict    with    slavery- 


14    KARL    MARX   AND    CIVIL   WAR 

maintaining  insurgents  as  the 
cause  of  human  nature,  and  they 
derive  new  encouragement  to 
persevere  from  the  testimony  of 
the  workingmen  of  Europe  that 
the  National  Alliance  is  favored 
with  the  enlightened  approval 
and  earnest  sympathies. 

"I  have  the  honor  to  be,  Sir, 
"Your  obedient  servant, 
"Charles  Francis  Adams." 

The  attitude  of  the  General 
Council  of  the  International 
Workingmen's  Association,  as 
reflected  in  the  address  to  Pres- 
ident Lincoln,  did  not,  however, 
meet  with  the  approval  of  all  its 
sympathizers  in  the  United 
States.  Among  those  who  pro- 
tested against  it  were  especially 
the  members  of  the  Communist 
Club  of  New  York,  wrho  held  that 
Lincoln's  policy  did  not  deserve 
to  be  thus  honored. 


KARL    MARK   AND    CIVIL    WAR    15 


2.  Address  of  the  General 
Council  of  the  Interna- 
tional WORKINGMEN'S  AS- 
SOCIATION to  President 
Andrew  Johnson. 

On  April  14,  1865,.  Lincoln 
was  fatally  wounded  in  Ford's 
Theatre  in  Washington  by  a  shot 
in  the  head  fired  by  the  actor, 
John  Wilkes  Booth.  He  died  the 
next  morning.  At  the  same  time 
Southern  fanatics  attempted  to 
kill  Secretary  of  State  Seward 
in  his  bed  and  dangerously 
wounded  him  and  his  son.  Vice- 
President  Johnson  succeeded 
Lincoln  as  President  of  the 
Union. 

It  was  characteristic  of  the 
feeling  towards  the  United 
States  in  the  dominant  circles 
of  England  that  one  of  their 
mouthpieces  in  the  press,  on  the 
arrival  of  the  news  of  Lincoln's 
assassination,  should  publish  the 


16    KARL    MARX   AND    CIVIL   WAR 

following  significant  suggestion : 
"The  dagger  or  the  pistol  in  the 
hands  of  the  weakest  worm  that 
crawls  in  human  shape  upon  the 
earth  can  change  the  destinies  of 
nations  or  divert  the  current 
opinion  into  a  new  channel." 
And  immediately  following  this 
sentence,  without  any  transition, 
the  paper  described  Lincoln's 
successor,  Andrew  Johnson,  as 
a  "bloodthirsty  scoundrel,"  as 
the  scum  and  outcast  of  man- 
kind, as  a  most  dangerous 
tyrant.  * 

It  was  of  course  only  the  most 
rabid  element  among  the  English 
public  that  extolled  the  assassin 
Booth  as  a  champion  of  liberty, 
as  a  worthy  successor  of  Brutus 
and  of  Tell,  while  on  the  other 
hand  a  large  portion  of  those 
who  had  hitherto  been  hostile  to 
Lincoln  condemned  Booth's  deed. 

On    the    report    of    Lincoln's 


*Der  Deutsche  Eidgenosse.    London 
and  Hamburg.     1865,  p.  42. 


KARL    MARX   AXD    CIVIL    WAR    17 

death,  the  General  Council  of 
the  International  Workingmen's 
Association  resolved  to  send  an- 
other address  to  America,  this 
time  to  the  successor  of  the  mur- 
dered President,  Andrew  John- 
son. The  address  was  adopted 
May  13th,  and  read  as  follows  :* 
"Address  of  the  International 
Workingmen's  Association  to 

President  Johnson. 
"To  Andrew  Johnson,  President 

of  the  United  States. 
"Dear  Sir: 

"The  demon  of  the  'peculiar 


*The  address  was  published  in  the 
London  Beehive  of  May  20,  1865.  It 
has  been  impossible  to  procure  a  copy 
of  this  issue  of  the  Beehive,  and  the 
author  of  the  present  treatise  has 
therefore  been  compelled  to  retrans- 
late the  address  into  English  from  a 
German  translation  of  it  to  which  he 
has  had  access.  The  wording  which 
he  here  submits  is  therefore  certain 
not  to  correspond  with  the  original  in 
every  particular,  but  he  feels  that  he 
can  vouch  for  the  essential  accuracy 
of  the  message  it  conveyed. 


L8    KARL    MARX   AND    CIVIL   WAR 

institution,'  for  whose  preserva- 
tion the  South  rose  in  arms,  did 
lot  permit  its  devotees  to  suffer 
honorable  defeat  on  the  open 
battlefield.  What  had  been  con- 
ceived in  treason,  must  necessar- 
ily end  in  infamy.  As  Philip  II. 's 
war  in  behalf  of  the  Inquisition 
produced  a  Gerard,  so  Jefferson 
Davis's  rebellion  a  Booth. 

"We  shall  not  seek  for  words 
of  mourning  and  horror  when 
the  heart  of  two  continents  is 
throbbing  with  emotion.  Even 
the  sycophants  who  year  after 
year  and  day  after  day  were 
ousily  engaged  in  morally  stab- 
bing Abraham  Lincoln  and  the 
great  republic  of  which  he  was 
the  head — even  they  are  dis- 
mayed in  the  presence  of  this 
universal  outburst  of  popular 
feeling  and  vie  with  one  an- 
other in  strewing  flowers  of 
rhetoric  upon  his  open  grave. 
They  have  at  last  come  to  recog- 
nize that  he  was  a  man  whom 
defeat  could  not  dishearten,  nor 


KAKL    MARX   AND    CIVIL   WAR    lv) 

success  intoxicate,  who  imper- 
turbably  pressed  on  towards  his 
great  goal  without  ever  imperil- 
ing it  by  blind  haste,  who  ad- 
vanced deliberately  and  never 
retraced  a  step,  who  was  never 
carried  away  by  popular  favor 
and  never  discouraged  by  the 
subsidence  of  popular  enthus- 
iasm, who  answered  acts  of  se- 
verity with  the  sunbeams  of  a 
loving  heart,  who  brightened 
gloomy  exhibitions  of  passion  by 
the  smile  of  humor,  and  who  ac- 
complished his  titanic  task  as 
simply  and  as  modestly  as  rulers 
by  divine  right  are  wont  to  do 
trifling  things  writh  great  pomp 
and  circumstance ;  in  a  word,  he 
was  one  of  those  rare  men  who 
succeed  in  becoming  great  with- 
out ceasing  to  be  good.  So  great, 
indeed,  was  the  modesty  of  this 
great  and  good  man  that  the 
world  discovered  that  he  was  a 
hero  only  when  he  had  died  as  a 
martyr. 

'To  be  chosen  at  the  side  of 


20    KARL    AlARX   AND    CIVIL    WAR 

such  a  leader  as  the  second  vic- 
tim by  the  hellish  demons  of 
slavery  was  an  honor  of  which 
Mr.  Seward  was  worthy.  Was 
he  not  in  a  period  of  general  in- 
decision so  perspicacious  as  to 
foresee  the  'irrepressible  conflict/ 
and  so  unterrified  as  to  foretell 
it?  Did  he  not  in  the  gloomiest 
moments  of  this  conflict  prove 
himself  true  to  the  duty  of  the 
Roman  never  to  despair  of  the 
republic  and  its  destiny?  We 
hope  with  all  our  heart  that  he 
and  his  son  will  be,  in  less  than 
ninety  days,  restored  to  health, 
to  public  activity,  and  to  the 
well  -  deserved  honors  which 
await  them. 

"After  a  gigantic  Civil  War 
which,  if  we  consider  its  colos- 
sal extension  and  its  vast  scene 
of  action,  seems  in  comparison 
with  the  Hundred  Years'  War 
and  the  Thirty  Years'  War  and 
the  Twenty-three  Years'  War  of 
the  Old  World  scarcely  to  have 
lasted  ninety  days,  the  task,  Sir, 


KARL   MARX   AND    CIVIL   WAR   21 

devolves  upon  you  to  uproot  by 
law  what  the  sword  has  felled, 
and  to  preside  over  the  more  dif- 
ficult work  of  political  recon- 
struction and  social  regenera- 
tion. The  profound  conscious- 
ness of  your  great  mission  will 
preserve  you  from  all  weakness 
in  the  execution  of  your  stern 
duties.  You  will  never  forget 
that  the  American  people  at  the 
inauguration  of  the  new  era  of 
the  emancipation  of  labor  placed 
the  burden  of  leadership  on  the 
shoulders  of  two  men  of  labor — 
Abraham  Lincoln  the  one,  and 
the  other  Andrew  Johnson. 

"Signed  in  the  name  of  the  In- 
ternational Workingmen's  Asso- 
ciation by  the  General  Council, 
May  13,  1865 : 

"Charles  Kaub,  L.  Delle,  H. 
Klimrosch,  M.  Salbasella,  Ed- 
ward Coulson,  G.  Lochner,  1. 
Weston,  G.  Howell,  F.  Lessner, 
G.  Eccarius,  H.  Bollster,  Bord- 
age,  C.  Pfander,  I.  Osborne,  B. 
Luirass,  A.  Valtien,  N.  P.  Stan- 


12    KARL   MARX   AND    CIVIL    WAR 

sen,  E.  Peterson,  I.  Buckley,  R. 
Shaw,  K.  Schapper,  A.  Janks,  P. 
Fox,  I.  H.  Longmaid,  M.  Mor- 
gan, G.  L.  Wheeler,  I.  D.  Nicass, 
L.  C.  Vorley,  Dr.  Stainsby,  F. 
Carter,  E.  Holtorp,  Secretary 
for  Poland;  K.  Marx,  Secretary 
for  Germany;  H.  Jung,  Secre- 
tary for  Switzerland ;  E.  Dupont, 
Secretary  for  France;  E.  VVhit- 
lock,  Financial  Secretary;  G. 
Odgers,  President;  W.  R.  Cre- 
mer,  General  Secretary." 


KARL   MARX   AND    CIVIL   WAR   28 


3.    Address  of  the  General 

Council  to  the  People  of 

the  United  States. 

In  September,  1865,  the  Inter- 
national met  in  conference  in 
London,  as  the  first  congress  of 
the  Association  which  was  to 
have  taken  place  at  this  time  in 
Brussels  had  been  made  impos- 
sible by  the  action  of  the  Belgian 
Government.  This  London  con- 
ference once  more  returned  to  a 
discussion  of  the  question  of 
slavery  and  resolved  to  send  an 
address  to  the  American  people. 
The  following  was  the  address : 
"Address  of  the  Conference  of 

the  International  Working- 
men's  Association  of  Sep- 
tember 25,  1865. 

"To  the  People  of  the  United 
States  of  America. 

"Citizens  of  the  Great  Repub- 
lic, once  more  we  address  you, 


24    KARL    MARX    AND    CIVIL   WAR 

not  in  sympathetic  condolence, 
but  in  words  of  congratulation. 

"Had  we  not  most  profoundly 
sympathized  with  you  in  your 
times  of  trouble,  when  foes  with- 
in and  without  were  eagerly 
bent  on  destroying  your  Govern- 
ment and  the  principles  of  uni- 
versal justice  upon  which  it  is 
based,  we  should  not  now  ven- 
ture to  congratulate  you  upon 
your  success. 

"But  we  have  never  swerved 
in  our  loyalty  to  your  cause, 
which  is  the  cause  of  all  man- 
kind ;  nor  did  we  ever  despair  of 
its  final  triumph,  not  even  in  the 
darkest  shadows  of  its  mishaps. 

"In  firm  devotion  to,  and  un- 
faltering faith  in  those  prin- 
ciples of  equality  and  fraternal 
communion  for  which  you  drew 
the  sword,  we  were  convinced 
that  as  soon  as  the  conflict 
should  be  over  and  victory  won, 
you  would  return  it  to  its  scab- 
bard, and  peace  would  once  more 
come  to  your  country  and  joy  to 


KARL   MARX   AND    CIVIL    WAR   25 

your  people. 

"Success  has  justified  our  ex- 
pectations. Your  war  is  the  only 
example  known  of  a  government 
fighting  against  a  fraction  of  its 
own  citizens  for  the  freedom  of 
the  people. 

"Above  all  we  congratulate 
you  upon  the  termination  of  the 
war  and  the  preservation  of  the 
Union.  The  Stars  and  Stripes, 
which  your  own  sons  had  bru- 
tally trampled  in  the  dust,  once 
more  flutter  in  the  breeze  from 
the  Atlantic  to  the  Pacific  Ocean, 
never  again,  wre  trust,  to  be  in- 
sulted by  your  own  children  and 
never  again  to  wave  over  bloody 
battlefields,,  whether  those  of  do- 
mestic insurrection  or  those  of 
foreign  war. 

"And  may  those  misguided 
citizens  who  displayed  so  much 
valor  on  the  battlefield  in  a 
wicked  cause  now  display  as 
much  zeal  in  helping  to  heal  the 
wounds  which  they  struck  and  in 
restoring  peace  to  the  common 


KARL    MARX   AND    CIVIL    WAR 

country. 

"Again  we  felicitate  you  upon 
the  removal  of  the  cause  of  these 
years  of  affliction — upon  the 
abolition  of  slavery.  The  strain 
upon  your  otherwise  so  shining 
escutcheon  is  forever  wiped  out. 
Never  again  shall  the  hammer  of 
the  auctioneer  announce  in  your 
market-places  sales  of  human 
flesh  and  blood  and  make  man- 
kind shudder  at  the  cruel  bar- 
barism. 

"Your  noblest  blood  was  shed 
in  washing  away  these  stains, 
and  desolation  has  spread  its 
black  shroud  over  your  country 
in  penance  for  the  past. 

"To-day  you  are  free,  purified 
through  your  sufferings.  A 
brighter  future  is  dawning  upon 
your  glorious  republic,  proclaim- 
ing to  the  old  world  that  a  gov- 
ernment of  the  people  and  by  the 
people  is  a  government  for  the 
people  and  not  for  a  privileged 
minority. 

"We  had  the  honor  to  express 


KARL    MARX   AND    CIVIL   WAR   27 

to  you  our  sympathy  in  your  af- 
fliction, to  send  you  a  word  of 
encouragement  in  your  strug- 
gles, and  to  congratulate  you 
upon  your  success.  Permit  us  to 
add  a  word  of  counsel  for  the 
future. 

"In justice  against  a  fraction 
of  your  people  having  been  fol- 
lowed by  such  dire  consequences, 
put  an  end  to  it.  Declare  your 
fellowT  citizens  from  this  day 
forth  free  and  equal,  without 
any  reserve.  If  you  refuse  them 
citizens'  rights  while  you  exact 
from  them  citizens'  duties  you 
will  sooner  or  later  face  a  new 
struggle  wrhich  will  once  more 
drench  your  country  in  blood. 

"The  eyes  of  Europe  and  of 
the  whole  world  are  on  your  at- 
tempts at  reconstruction,  and 
foes  are  ever  ready  to  sornd  the 
death-knell  of  republican  insti- 
tutions as  soon  as  they  see  then 
opportunity. 

"We  therefore  admonish  you. 
as  brothers  in  a  common  cause, 


28    KARL    MARX   AND    CIVIL   WAR 

to  sunder  all  the  chains  of  free- 
dom, and  your  victory  will  be 
complete/' 

The  policy  of  conciliation  ini- 
tiated by  the  American  Govern- 
ment in  regard  to  the  South,  and 
the  adoption  of  the  constitution- 
al amendments  affirming  the  po- 
litical equality  of  the  Negroes, 
were  steps  in  accordance  with 
the  address  which  the  confer- 
ence of  the  International  Work- 
ingmen's  Association  directed  to 
the  people  of  the  United  States. 


KARL    MARX   AND    CIVIL   WAR    29 

A  Rejuvenation  of  Has-Beens 

BY  H.  M.  TICHENOR. 

Do  you  feel  the  infirmities  of 
age  creeping  upon  you?  Are 
the  fires  of  vitality  slowly  but 
surely  dying  out?  Have  you 
had  dreams  of  the  fountain  of 
youth  that  made  a  glcb?  trotter 
of  Ponce  de  Leon?  If  euch  be  the 
case,  you  are  recommended  to 
obtain  a  monkey,  and  have  a 
surgeon  do  the  rest. 

The  following  New  York  press 
dispatch  gives  the  details: 

"Breeding  silver  foxes  in  the  frozen 
North  for  their  expensive  pelts  is  a 
picayune  financial  proposition  com- 
pared to  the  possibilities  of  breeding 
and  raising  monkeys  whose  glands 
will  be  used  for  the  restoration  of 
vitality,  according  to  Dr.  Se-g3  Ver- 
onoff,  Paris  surgeon,  who  has  come  to 
the  United  States  expecting  to  per- 
form gland  transplanting  operations 
in  colleges  and  before  medical  clinics. 

"He   urged   that   monkey  farms   be 


30    KARL    MARX   AND    CIVIL   WAR 

established  in  the  United  States  on  a 
large  scale.  He  said  his  operation 
would  increase  the  life  of  a  man  from 
70  years  to  more  than  a  c^nturv.  His 
several  operations  performed  on 
Frenchmen  have  been  successful,  he 
declared,  and  at  this  time,  one  of  his 
patients  is  heading  an  expedifion  into 
the  French  Congo  to  obtain  chimpan- 
zees which  will  form  the  nucleus  of  a 
farm  in  France. 

"The  immediate  purpose  of  his  trip 
to  the  United  States  is  to  perform  an 
operation  transferring  the  interst;tial 
glands  of  a  person  who  had  met  sud- 
den death  in  a  healthy  cord  ti^n  to 
some  man  feeling  the  need  of  renewed 
youth.  Dr.  Veronoff  said  F  ench 
laws  prohibiting  the  mutilation  of 
corpses  have  prevented  him  from  per- 
forming this  operation  before. 

"Dr.  Veronoff  was  informed  that  he 
had  a  rival  in  the  theory  of  gland 
transplanting  in  Dr.  John  R.  Brink- 
ley,  a  surgeon  of  Milford,  Kans.,  who 
holds  to  the  theory  that  goats*  glands 
should  be  used  instead  of  monkeys*. 

"  'Monkey  glands  are  better  than 
goat  glands  for  several  reasons/  said 
Dr.  Veronoff.  'The  blood  of  monkeys 
can  scarcely  be  dist;nguished  from 
that  of  humans  and  monkeys  are  the 
most  highly  developed  animals,  being 
susceptible  to  many  diseases  of  man. 


KARL    MARX   AND    CIVIL   WAR    31 

Also,  monkeys  are  more  prolific  than 
goats.  Many  of  the  earlier  experi- 
ments were  on  goats,  but  the  180 
operations  I  performed  proved  conclu- 
sively to  my  mind  that  monkey  glands 
are  the  best/  " 

The  foregoing  prescription  for 
the  rejuvenation  of  has-beens 
seems  simple  enough.  An  injec- 
tion of  "insterstitial  glands" 
does  the  work.  A  monkey  is 
preferable,  but  in  an  emergency 
a  goat  might  do.  Or  even  a 
suddenly  deceased  healthy  hu- 
man. But  to  be  sure  of  resists 
get  the  monkey.  And  sea  that 
the  doctor  uses  interstitial 
glands;  which  means,  according 
to  Webster's  Dictionary,  an  ex- 
traction from  an  interstice.  An 
interstice,  says  Webster's,  is  "a 
space  which  intervenes  between 
one  thing  and  another;  espe- 
cially, a  narrow  or  small  sr>ace 
between  things  close  together, 
or  between  the  component  parts 
of  a  body;  a  chink;  or  a  cran- 
ny." 


32    KARL    MARX    AND    CIVIL   WAR 

What  you  need  is  the  mon- 
key's chink.  Or  his  cranny.  Don't 
get  confused  over  the  word 
"chink"  and  think  it's  a  Chi- 
naman. Don't  make  any  mis- 
take in  the  prescription  and 
then  blame  the  bad  effects  on 
Dr.  Serge  Veronoff's  discovery. 

But  seriously,  even  if  the  pre- 
scription should  do  the  work  be- 
yond expectations,  if  it  should 
made  TO-year-oM  men  hop 
around  like  youngsters — even  if 
gray  hairs  departed,  and  bald 
spots  renewed  luxuriant 
growth,  if  old  teeth  were  shed 
and  new  ones  grew,  and  wrin- 
kles smoothed  out  into  ruddy 
flesh,  and  the  smoldering  em- 
bers of  age  became  aglow  with 
fresh  fuel — even  with  all  this 
and  more,  if  it  is  only  the  men 
that  are  benefited,  as  seems  to 
be  the  case  according  to  the 
New  York  dispatch  quoted,  and 
the  women  are  left  to  wither 
away   with   oncoming   years,   is 


KARL   MARX   AND    CIVIL   WAR   33 

the     proposition     worth     much 
after  all? 

Imagine  the  old  man  brought 
back  to  his  twenties  while 
the  wife  goes  about  worn 
and  weary  with  the  weight  of 
years.  Is  this  a  "consummation 
to  be  desired?"  No — unless  the 
discovery — and  perhaps  it  may 
— embraces  the  women,  no  gal- 
lant septuagenarian  would  be 
tempted  to  try  the  operation. 
No  matter  how  successful  it 
might  prove,  the  jump  back- 
ward to  youth  would  land  him 
out  of  his  class.  He  would  soon 
tire  of  being  rejuvenated  into 
the  younger  set,  would  mourn 
his  lonely  lot,  when  "from  love's 
shining  circle  the  gems  drop 
away."  He  would  long  for  the 
loves  that  had  grown  with  the 
years.  He  would  repeat  with 
the  Irish  poet, 

"When  fond  hopes  have  left  us,  and 

loved    ones    have    flown, 
0  who  would  inhabit  this  bleak  world 

alone!" 


34    KARL    MARX    AND    CIVIL   WAR 

Completeness  of  the  Sweep 
BY  H.  M.  TICHENOR. 

The  colossal  profits  coined  off 
the  agony  and  blood,  the  death 
and  destruction  of  war  is  but 
one  of  the  manifestations  of 
the  complete  sweep  that  the 
capitalist  system  has  developed 
for  the  purpose  of  exploitation. 

Every  imaginable  element 
arising  under  a  dictatorship  of 
a  profiteering  class  is  turned 
into  profits. 

The  diseases  spawned  by  the 
foul  air  of  congested  tenement 
and  factory  districts,  adulter- 
ated food  and  impure  water,  the 
perversion  of  nature's  sex  law, 
the  desolation  of  poverty  and 
the  ravages  of  war,  become  pro- 
fit-makers for  a  vast  army  of 
doctors,  druggists  and  under- 
takers. 

The  crimes  created  by  a  soc- 


KARL   MARX   AND    CIVIL    WAR    b5 

ial  system  that  denies  millions 
the  full  opportunity  to  produce 
and  retain  those  things  essen- 
tial to  "life,  liberty  and  the  pur- 
suit of  happiness,"  become  pro- 
fit makers  for  a  vast  army  of 
lawyers,  judges,  detectives,  de- 
partment of  justice  officials 
and  lawmaking  legislators. 

Under  the  capitalist  system 
dishonesty  offers  big  dividends, 
while  honesty  beggars. 

And  look  at  the  profit  that 
lies  bring,  platform,  press  and 
pulpit  lies!  Who,  with  an  eye 
to  business,  would  think  of  mar- 
keting the  truth,  with  the  ex- 
pectation of  making  a  financial 
success  of  it? 

Uuder  the  capitalist  system 
it  i^  not  only  unprofitable  to  be 
truthful  but  is  liable  to  land 
the  truthteller  in  jail. 

Evervthing  prepared  by  the 
profiteering  powers  that  be  for 
the  mental  absorption  of  the 
masses  is  properly  doped  in  the 


V.    KARL    MARX   AND    CIVIL   WAR 

interest  of  the  class  that  pre- 
pares it. 

The  books  they  offer,  the 
histories,  novels  and  school 
books,  are  written  to  sustain 
the  capitalist  system  of  exploi- 
tation and  war. 

The  theatrical  performances, 
anc}  that  powerful  educational 
medium,  the  picture  plays,  are 
daily  and  nightly  purveyors  of 
capitalist  'class  dissimulation. 
To  put  it  mildly,  a  whole  lot  of 
them,  especially  the  picture 
plays  are  more  poisonous  to  the 
minds  of  the  masses  than 
moonshine  .  liquor  to  their 
stomachs. 

And  the  masses  fall  all  over 
themselves  to  get  the  poison. 

They  pay  for  it,  like  they  pay 
for  everything  else  purposely 
gotten  up  to  make  them  admire 
a  social  system  that  'bridles 
and  saddles"  them  so  that  their 
"booted  and  spurred"  masters 
can  ride. 


KARL    MARX   AND    CIVIL    WAR   37 

The  completeness  of  the 
sweep  that  the  capitalist  sys- 
tem has  developed  is  made  par- 
ticularly, and  most  offensively 
prominent  during  the  holiday 
season.  It  even  takes  in  Jesus. 
The  ones  that  live  by  expropri- 
ating the  wealth  created  by 
workers  not  only  managed  long 
ago  to  transform  Jesus'  mes- 
sage of  "peace  on  earth,  to- 
ward men  goodwill"  into  a 
bunch  of  chloroforming  creeds, 
but  have  succeeded  in  utilizing 
his  birthday  to  fill  their  pock- 
ets. 

Perhaps  future  history  will 
record  this  as  the  master-stroke 
of  brazen  impudence  exhibited 
by  the  capitalist  exploiters 
during  the  age  of  profiteering. 

Christian  and  Jew  vie  with 
each  other  in  loudly  proclaim- 
ing the  various  Christmas 
wares  they  have  on  sale. 

Full-page  advertisements 

blaze  the  columns  of  the  cap- 


38    KARL    MARX   AND    CIVIL   WAR 

italist-class  papers  announcing 
bargains  in  the  name  of  Christ. 

Store  fronts  are  covered 
with  monster  Santa  Clauses  lit 
up  with  colored  electric  lights 
to  lure  the  passerby  to  let  loose 
his  dollars.  The  Dutch  patron 
saint  of  children  is  made  a  big 
money-getter  under  modern 
capitalism. 

And  the  irony  of  it  all  is  that 
if  Jesus  were  here  today  he 
would  be  run  in  by  Palmer's 
agents  and  soaked  with  twenty 
years  in  the  pen. 

What  part  would  he  play  in 
a  Christmas  under  capitalism 
that  makes  millions  of  dollars 
profit  for  the  class  that  put 
him  out  of  the  way  when  he 
was  here  before? 

Next  to  the  sight  of  Lenin 
and  his  red  army  no  historical 
character  would  agitate  the 
capitalist  class  as  much  as  the 
appearance  of  the  ancient  agi- 
tator of  Palestine.     There   are 


KARL    MARX   AND    CIVIL   WAR   3U 

many  professing  Christians 
who  would  pull  in  their  Christ- 
mas celebration  if  Jesus  were 
here  to  take  note.  Being  ab- 
sent he  comes  in  with  the  com- 
pleteness of  the  sweep  for  pro- 
fits. 

A  sweep  that  overlooks 
nothing — not  even  funeral  ex- 
penses— when  dollars  are  in 
sight. 

Such  is   capitalism. 

A  complete  sweep  for  profits. 

Gathering   in   everything. 

Making  profits  out  of  the 
sufferings  of  the  class  that  pro- 
duces all  wealth. 

No  workers,  no  wealth  pro- 
duced, no  profits. 

And  it  requires  a  capital- 
ist class  system  to  allow  the 
profiteers  to  take  the  profits 
from  the  wealth  produced  by 
the  workers. 

It  isn't  arranged  for  the 
workers  to  retain  the  wealth 
they  produce. 


40    KARL   MARX   AND    CIVIL   WAR 

If  the  workers  retained  the 
wealth  they  produce  the  capi- 
talist class  would  be  obliged 
to  work  for  what  they  get, 
or  expire. 

They  would  have  no  com- 
plete sweep. 

Poverty,  having  no  cause  for 
existence,  would  cease  to  exist. 

War  would  do  likewise. 

Lies  the  same. 

The  capitalist-class  sweep 
would  be  no  more. 

Jesus  could  come  around  on 
his  birthday  and  not  be  run  in. 

The  completeness  of  the 
sweep  of  the  capitalist-class. 
It  cannot  be  all  told  in  the 
Rip-Saw.  It  takes  in  much 
more  than  has  been  mentioned. 
It  takes  in  you,  who  are  read- 
ing this,  and  all  who  are  dear 
to  you. 

The  completeness  of  the 
sweep. 

Can   you   beat   it? 


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Socrates     was    accused    of    corrupt 
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The  Man  Who 
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BY  RUDYARD  KIPLING. 
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Debate  on 
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The  Strength  of 
the  Strong 

BY  JACK   LONDON 

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One  of  Cleopatra's 
Nights 

BY   THEOPHILE   GAUTIER. 

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artist  in  the  use  of  words,  Laffcadio 
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Voltaire's 

Pocket  Theology 

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takes  up  the  numerous  words  user! 
by  churchians  and  defies  them  in  a 
most  humorous  and  caustic  man 
ner.  There  are  over  500  different 
definitions,  each  one  of  them  very 
amusing.  Take  the  one  on  Adam 
It  reads:  "He  was  the  first  man 
God  created  him  a  big  booby,  who 
to  please  his  wife,  was  stupid 
enough  to  devour  an  apple  which 
his  descendants  have  never  since 
been  able  to  digest." 

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miring  him,  because  his  work  ha? 
eternal  freshness  and  vigor  about 
it,  while  his  enemies  will  always 
malign  and  hate  him  because  he 
^pent  the  whole  of  his  long  life 
deriding  them  and  showing  them 
their   hollowneis. 

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The  Life  of  Debs 

BY     LOUIS     KOPELIN. 

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of    the    labor    movement    in    America 

is     mirrored     faithfully.       The     early 

building  of  the   labor  movement;    the 

A..    R.    U.    strike;     the    inception    and 

growth   of   what   is   now   the   Socialist 

nartv;       the       wonderful       campaigns 

through      which      the      attention      of 

\merican   voters  was  attracted  to  the 

aew    party:     the    great    lecture    tours 

*n    which    Debs    spread    the    message 

tf    labor    and    Socialism    to    millions; 

the     tremendous     struggles     of     labor 

n    which    the    Appeal,    with    Debs    an 

active    member    of    the    staff,    wfes    in 

'he    vanguard    of    the    fight;     finally. 

•■he    war    and    the   trial    and    imprison 

ment  of  Debs;   all  these  are  recorded 

>n    this   volume,  "The   Life   of   Debs." 

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thorough     in     its     treatment        As     * 

oicture     of     Debs,     it     cannot     be     ex 

relied.     As  propaganda  for  social  jus 

ice.    it    has    no   equal.      It   catches    the 

nterest,       and       then       captures       the 

'bought         Debs      and      the      Sociali* 

nnvoment   live   in   its   pages. 

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Tales  of 
Sherlock  Holmes 

Conan  Doyle  is  the  genius  of  our 
age  He  has  taken  his  great  liter- 
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Even  to  the  smallest  detail,  every 
bit  of  the  plot  is  Worked  out  scien- 
tifically. 

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Sherlock  Holmes  is  a  master  man 
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the    mile-a-minute    brain. 

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thinks  even  mote  quickly  and,  there- 
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heart  of  any  one  who  reads  of  his  ad- 
ventures. 

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The  Case  for 

Birth  Control 

Birth  control  is  not  a  new  thing 
It  is  as  old  as  the  evil — excessive  ano 
indiscriminate  production  of  human 
beings — which  it  seeks  to  alleviate 
There  has  n(>ver  been  a  time  when 
human  beings  did  not  endeavor  by 
whatever  means  possible  to  restrict 
their  offspring.  It  has  always  been 
recognized  by  intelligent  persons 
that  it  is  a  crime  to  bring  more  chil- 
dren into  the  world  than  can  be  given 
oroper  care,  training  and  oppor 
tunity 

What  the  modern  science  and  prop- 
aganda of  birth  control  looks  forward 
to  is  the  sane  dissemination  of  scien- 
tific information  among  the  people. 
It  aims  to  give  the  poor  the  knowl- 
edge and  opportunity  that  the  wealthy 
now  have.  It  will  give  the  hopeless, 
overburdened  mother  of  a  working 
class  family  the  relief  from  the  con- 
stant horror  of  too  many  children, 
whose  coming  is  dreaded  because  it 
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will  simply  add  to  the  poverty  and 
suffering   ©f  the   home. 

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The  Training 
of  the  Child 


The  physical  health  of  children 
more  especially  of  infants,  has  been 
the  subject  of  most  careful  investi- 
gations, so  much  that  we  seem  to 
have  reached  nearly  perfection  in 
this  matter.  The  best  methods  in 
use  which  aim  at  developing  the 
child's  intelligence  cannot  claim  such 
striking  results;  but  yet  there  is  no 
mistaking  the  fact  that  kindergart- 
ners  and  other  educationists  have  ac- 
complished much.  Only  moral  edu- 
cation has  been  almost  entirely  neg 
lected.  In  this  department  the  manu- 
*i  or  parents  have  yet  to  be  pre- 
pared, if  we  omit  a  few  recent  at- 
tempts. This  book,  based  on  much 
close  and  extensive  observation,  and 
written  in  the  full  glare  of  modern 
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A  Wizard  of  Words 

Brarm  was  a  Crusader  for  Truth 
and  Right.  .He  spared  no  man.  no 
woman,  no  power,  no  wrong.  What 
he  thought  he  wrote.  He  may  have 
^>een  wrong,  but  he  had  the  cour- 
age of  his  convictions  and  the  God- 
given  ability  to  present  those  con- 
s  in  a  way  that  made  people 
admire  him,  love  him,  follow  him 
—or  hate  and  curse  him.  And 
while  he  made  hosts  of  friends,  it 
was  inevitable  that  he  made  a  host 
of  enemies. 

On  April  1,  1898,  Brann  was  shot 
down  in  the  streets  of  Waco  by 
one  of  his  enemies.  Before  he  fell, 
he  turned  on  his  assailant  and 
buried  five  bullets  in  his  body. 
Brann  died  a  few  hours  later.  But 
he  isn't  through.  Little  did  he 
realize  his  own  power,  his  own 
magic  of  words,  his  own  thunder- 
ing, crashing. power  of  expression. 
And  although  he  himself  is  gone, 
his  flaming  spirit  lives  in  the  Ap- 
peal 's  book  entitled  "Brann, 
Smasher   of   Shams." 

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Love 


Love  Letters  of  Men  and  Wo- 
men of  Genius 

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William    Hazlitt    to    Sarah    Walker. 

Goethe     to     Beltine     Brentano. 

Heine   to    Camille   Seiden. 

Diderot  to   Sophie   Voland. 

Shelley  to  Elizabeth   Hitchener. 

Lord    Nelson    to    Lady    Hamilton. 

Bismarck    to     Fraulein     Puttkamer. 

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Poems 


on 

Evolution 

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Richard  Hovey,  Longfellow,  Charlotte 
Perkins  Gilman.  Grant  Allen.  William 
Sharp,  Dante  Gabriel  Rossetti.  Wil- 
liam Ernest  Henley  and  Thomas  Bai- 
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romance  and  the  profound  signifi- 
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Poe's  Tales  of 
Mystery 

Tales  that  hold  you  in  deep, 
breathless  suspense  to  the  very 
last  line;  tales  that  amaze  and  as- 
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Case  of  Amontellado,"  "The  Tell- 
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House  of  Usher."  Here  you  have 
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He  Renounced  the 
Faith! 

Jack    London's    Brilliant   Story 
of  The  Apostate 

He  was  reared  from  babyhood  on 
the  Gospel  of  Work,  the  Philosophy 
of  Toil,  the  Religion  of  Monotonous 
Routine — but  he  renounced  the  faith! 
In  this  great  story.  Jack  London,  the 
distinguished  Socialist  author,  tells 
why  his  character  renounced  the 
faith  that  had  literally  been  breu 
into    his    bones. 

This  story  of  Jack  London's,  which 
has  been  issued  by  the  Appeal,  be- 
gins   with    the    following   rhyme: 

"Now    I    wake   me    up   to   work  ; 

1    pray    the    Lord    I    may    not   shirk. 

If    I    should   die    before    the    nitfht, 

I   pray    the   Lord  my  work's  all   right. 

Amen." 

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working  class  character,  such  liter- 
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The  Principles  of 
Electricity 

This  book  will  tell  you  what  you 
want  to  know,  in  plain  non-technical 
language  It  contains  the  following 
chapter  headings: 

1  he  Laws  and  Theory  of  Electric- 
ity. 

What   Is   Electricity? 

The   Foundations   of   Science. 

Various  Electricity  Theories  Anal- 
yzed. 

How    to    Measure    Electricity. 

Positive  and  Negative  Electricity 
— the   Difference. 

Laws  of  Electro-Magnetism  Made 
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